ECE Student Stories

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Apr 29, 2014

A key to communication for locked-​​in syndrome patients

For the past seven years, one man receiving care from LifeStream, a Massachusetts-​​based human ser­vices orga­ni­za­tion, has only been able to com­mu­ni­cate by blinking his eyes in response to yes-​​or-​​no […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 28, 2014

Freshman Patent Application

Freshman Computer Engineering student Leena Ahsan was awarded a patent application for creating a box that was collapsible as the contents are used. The invention boosts perforations, creases and the suggestion of […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 24, 2014

SDM Best Paper Award

Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 24, 2014

SDM14 Best Paper Award

Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 23, 2014

Afternoon at the ‘museum’

It’s April 9, and a sev­enth grader from the James P. Tim­ilty Middle School in Boston’s Rox­bury neigh­bor­hood is standing on a rotating plat­form on the third floor of Northeastern’s […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 14, 2014

2 ECE Students Chosen for Huntington 100

Dimitri Makris and Joseph Robinson were chosen for this year’s “Huntington 100”, a prestigious honor given to the most outstanding students for their hard work and achievements.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 14, 2014

Best Paper at EuCAP

ECE PhD student Yolanda Rodriquez, CenSSIS Senior Research Engineer Borja Ganzalez, ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo won the Best Propagation Paper Award at the 8th […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Outstanding Research Award

ECE PhD student Ceyhun Karbeyaz received a Graduate Computer and Information Sciences Research Award at this year's RISE Expo for a Web-based Laboratory for Computational Social Science. The online laboratory […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering